St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-11
FARGO A SUMMER RESORT.
Mention Of Some Of the Attractions Of
The Metropolis of the Red During
the Heated Season.
What the Cooperative Stock Company
of the Knights Of Labor Is Doing
and Projecting.
The Mayors Veto of the Saloon License
Ordinance Stirs the Ssloonkeep-
ers Up Perceptibly.
Doings of the Duluth, Fargo & Black
Hills---The Success of the Local
Option People.
Special to the Globe.

ings, not becoming too dark to read out
doors until and half past, express very
high opinions of this city as pleasure
and health resort for summer visit
ors, and in some instances will
send for. wige and friends to spend
most of the season, instead of
going to the old watering places. They
say they have never found locality
where health and vigor seemed so gen
eral or more largely induced by the eli
mate. 1t is believed that Fargo will
eventually be a favorite summer resort.
Its lack OF suitable hotel will soon be
supplied, and it is probable that at an
early period artesian wells will supply
pure or mineral water. 1t is on a
river of some note. that is I'M
patriotic enough to open its mouth in
the queens dominions-to the gratifica-
ton, perhaps, OF some of her loyal
subjects" here-it furnishes fair boating
and fishing. Fargo is but an hours
ride from some of the most charming
lakes in the West and within easy reach
of still larger ones. The drives afford
agreeable diversity of picturesque
scenery along the river, and views of
famous wheat fields. The nights are
rarely too warm, and when the ther-
mometers become heated in the day at
times, the dryneSs and purity of the at
mosphere relieves it of oppressiveness.
Cloudy and depressing days are very
rare, as the showers come and go with
very little fooling. With some it is an
attraction that the section is out of the
cyclone or tornado range. Traditions
Go not report any instance in which
lives or buildings have suffered mate
rally from summer storms, and Judge
Mitchell, its local scientist, has shown
that the storm belt runs elsewhere.
The emissary of the GLOBE here the
past week was fortunate III securing as
its business and circulating agent for
Fargo the efficient and popular assistant
in Hendricks books store, A. B. Potter.
Copies of the paper willalways be found
for sale there, and Mr.. Potter will take
pleasure in attending to the wants of all
patrons.
The local Knights of Labor have very
strong organization, comprising active
and prominent citizens in about every
branch of activity, except clergymen,
saloonkeepcrS. and lawyers, and don't
care much for politics, but have lately
organized cooperative stock company
for the prosecution of available branches
Of manufactures. their first venture
being in sash and blind factory, with
ether schemes in prospect. They expect
to open cooperative grocery store
soon, and eventually a dry goods house.
The feature of the municipal week,
in base ball parlance, has been the
mayors veto of the saloon license ordi-
nance because it did not put the voca-
ton on higher financial basis than it
has in the county outside of the
municipalities. The new law of the
legislatures makes $500 the minimum
and 500 the maximum all over the ter
ritory. The county board puts the fig
ureS at $500, and the city did not add to
them in Fargo. Casselton and other
incorp6 rated towns in the county add
$500, making 500, and the mayor insists
that the $500 alone offers too much in
in this city. The vetoed ordinance was
passed about month previous, and its
veto came upon the council like an
electric shock. The president, who
operates both a retail and wholesale
license, took his feet down from the
desk with thud, and he
began to think that the basket
of wet goods sent the mayor
in honor of his election was premature.
One-third or more of the members of
the council are interested in the bibu-
lous traffic, and that body is not likely
to impose heavier burdens than the
finally referred to committee to sit on
a week, and the community will watch
the outcome with good deal of inter
est. The saloon men are far from happy
over the enforcement of the SUNDAY law
for their benefit alone. They insist that
their wares are as essential to the COM
fort and happiness of patrons as cigars,
ice cream or peanuts on Sunday, but are
willing to close if all the rest are also
required to.
The large increase of business in the
police court the past month is crafty
ing indication of business revival. and
makes that institution generous source
of public revenue.
1t is given out that the Duluth, Fargo
& BlackHills railroad is to build and iron
$50 miles of the road southwest of Far
go this season. This would bring to the
Red river metropolis the trade of very
fine scope of country and be of great
value to the city, but there would be
more confidence in the scheme if it was
known to be in the hands of railroad
men and capitalists. 1t has not as yet
secured their favorable attention.
making his annual tour of North Da-
kota, doing "Macbeth'' at Fargo next
Monday. He seems to be satisfied with
his reception in the territory.
The Fargo League ball club has added
two more veterans who have won hon
orS upon the diamond, and very general
interest is felt in their approaching
meeting with the Grand Forks and
Wahpeton clubs, which their friends
bet high on.
1t is learned that the systematic eff
forts of the local option people i'm the
county are meeting with great success,
and there is believed to be little doubt
that petitions will come to the county
board containing more than the required
One-third of the vote cast last NOvem-
Der. 1t is a significant fact that MANY
OF the names secured, and some most
active in the movement, are men who
like their beer and do not turn away
from mixed drinks. For instance, many
Germans and large farmers want the sa-
looms closed because ON rainy DAYS their
hands go to the towns, get full, carouse.
and there is much trouble to get them
back to work again. At Casselton, for
instance, at times the town has been
Overrun with more of these hands than
the entire population of the town, and
they make bedlam of the place. A
great part Of the smaller farmers
are Scandinavians, and they are quite
generally taught by their preachers
to do all their drinking at home and OPP
pose the saloons. In this section local
optionsis regarded as more of move
ment to do away with saloons than to
enforce absttneuce from the use of beer